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thewoodbug.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, autism researcher. Reader, writer, radio listener, swimmer and nature lover. Arts buff. Dislikes: cronyism. Fan of The Archers 🙂
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Nice to finally see some spring lambs! 🐑

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now in an issue, still open access: my critique of 'oracy' as a concept and the deficit thinking at its roots, and how current oracy initiatives often rely on a flawed theory of social justice which seeks to remediate alleged linguistic deficiencies ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

So looking forward to this in-person and online public lecture on creating neurodiversity-affirming environments in schools by the amazing @thewoodbug.bsky.social! Come join us!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely criminal to get rid of Clarrie from the dairy. She’d worked there for decades & did best in the interviews. Don’t say Helen, who sacked her, has been having “a hard time of things” 🙄 #TheArchers

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I thought Rochelle was vegan 🤨 #TheArchers

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Lol - although not so far from the truth. #Aprilfools

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Lovely walk along the trainquil Ayr gorge, pausing at Peden's Cove, where Covenanter Alexander Peden used to climb the steps to preach (apparently) in the 17thC. Sounds of birds 🐦 and swooshing water 💦

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We are absolutely thrilled to have Dr Rebecca Wood (@thewoodbug.bsky.social) delivering our CYP Hub Stewart Alan Robertson Public Lecture on 28 April! This event is open to anyone and will be hybrid, so please do join us online if you're not in Edinburgh. education-sport.ed.ac.uk/cyp-hub-stew...

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Tony: Do you know what I think? Pat: Yes Tony I probably do. 😂 #TheArchers

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

We still have spaces left for this - come along to meet other autistic people and join in the fun

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Great to discover that the wonderful Max Richter is composer of the week on BBC Radio 3. I will be downloading & listening to repeatedly, no doubt 🎶 🎵 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Good to see an alternative perspective on the experiences of children with additional support needs. There is a too much exclusion by the back door. schoolsweek.co.uk/ascl-head-le...

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📣 If you missed my talk earlier in the year on Research and Disability: How to be an Inclusive Researcher, the recording is now available 🙂👇 youtu.be/z8N4x5sK5pY

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The Reintroduction Of Beaver www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

📣 If you missed my talk earlier in the year on Research and Disability: How to be an Inclusive Researcher, the recording is now available 🙂👇 youtu.be/z8N4x5sK5pY

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@edwyncollins.bsky.social Great to hear you (and Grace) on Front Row this evening. Shame your Glasgow gig is sold out! Any chance of a second night? My hub says Orange Juice the first ever live band he saw. "Let me put my arms around you" was played at our wedding. 💟

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Spring has truly sprung - lots of lovely flowers out. 🌼🌷

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Astounded to hear on the BBC news a commentator providing justification for Russia's invasion of Ukraine & explaining Putin's perspective. I really do think it's important to hear all sides but we can do this without the pernicious influence of Trumpian narratives, surely.

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The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

submitted 42 days ago • 56 comments

Read and weep. Fortunately now with a positive outcome. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Nice to see some of my early work on autism and communication included here 🙌

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a very nice surprise to see my own work* featured here. Our current project - How I Communicate - builds on a long-nurtured passion of supporting & valuing multi-modal forms of communication 🙌🏻 *I can forgive the slight typo in my name @psychmag.bsky.social 🙂

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Zelenskyy said he was prepared to sign a deal assigning vast mineral rights to the US. A deal very much in the US’s favour, but Trump & the gang are so inept, the visit ended without a deal. It’s more important to Trump to play the big guy & flatter Putin than to advantage his own country.

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